Your Sleepless Baby: The Rescue Guide

by Rowena Bennett

Being a parent is like being on a roller coaster ride. There are plenty of ups and downs, enjoyment and frustrations. As a parent I have experienced my share of testing times along with the many joys of parenting. The most challenging times were when my children were babies, toddlers and teenagers. I was already a registered nurse and midwife by the time my children came along. As a result of having personally experienced the demoralising effects of post natal depression I wanted to help others who found the early years of parenting a struggle, and so I decided to train as a mental health nurse and later as a child health nurse and lactation consultant. For the past 17 years I have been employed as a child health nurse in an early parenting residential centre, where my role primarily involved assisting parents to resolve complex baby and toddler care problems. I know that the families who gain admission to these centres are only the tip of the iceberg. There are countless other parents out there desperately searching for answers to their child's feeding or sleeping problems. About 10 years ago I started an online parenting consultation service, BabycareAdvice.com. I have enjoyed a high success rate, and a great deal of pleasure, assisting parents world-wide to find solutions to baby or toddler care problems that match their circumstances. Problems that their local healthcare providers were in many instances unable to resolve. The reason for my success is because my expertise lies in resolving behavioural problems; the most common of all problems experienced by healthy babies and toddlers. I knew I could reach more parents though books than individual consultations. In 2012 I published Your Sleepless Baby: The Rescue Guide, the first of what will become a series of baby care books. After 37 years as a nurse I now live and work from home on the glorious Sunshine Coast of Queensland with my husband, Bruce and dog, Ruby. Bruce and I have the time to enjoy our children and grandchildren who visit regularly. We get to reap the rewards for being parents and the joy of being grandparents!

Genres: Parenting

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Ieva · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I would have read this book before having a baby. Still even after having a baby I have to say that this is the best baby book.
❤❤❤

[Nathan De · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not superbly well written with a lot of repetition, but the advice is solid and helped us to raise two babies that sleep... like babies. The concept - healthy babies are able to naturally self-settle to sleep and most sleep problems arise from parents inadvertently teaching their babies negative sleep associations - is very simple to understand in theory, but very difficult to master in practice. Negative sleep associations are those that do not remain constant throughout the night, like many of the actions parents take to calm their babies: breastfeeding, holding, .... You can still do these to calm your baby, but not until the point they fall asleep. In that sense you might find the repetition and many testimonials useful to bring home this point. I did not and would recommend you to read a summary (or this review) instead.

[Natálie]

After finishing this book, my babies still refuse to sleep. I guess it's because they haven't read the book. :/

[Joanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sleep trained my baby in one night with this book. I appreciated the logical and practical approach.